Slumdog Millionaire (movie)

Now we're cooking. Finally, the fruits of the international film festival circuit are being delivered all over the place, just in time for awards season, formerly known as "winter." Now is the time we learn if the rapturous reception for Bennett Miller's unblinking true-crime drama "Foxcatcher," for example, first heard at Cannes and continuing at Telluride and Toronto, will translate to sizable audiences and multiple Academy Award nominations. November and December feel like 12 months, not two. So many titles of preordained or hoped-for prestige compete for your time and attention in the same, few short weeks. Stephen Hawking gets his biopic (a good one),...

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